- (adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.
- (n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
- (v.i.) To be wanted; to be necessary.
- (n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
- (n.) That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
- (n.) Situation of need; peril; danger.
- (n.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
- (adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.
- (v.i.) To be wanted; to be necessary.
- (n.) That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
- (n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
- (n.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
- (n.) Situation of need; peril; danger.
- (n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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